Friday, May 23, 2014

Conga! G1 Morgan Stallion

The original ceramic Hagen-Renaker mold, #389 Mini Morgan Stallion5, was sculpted by Maureen Love Calvert, and leased from the ceramics company by Breyer for production in plastic. Officially released in 1976, the Morgan Stallion mold was discontinued along with the other Generation One molds in 2005.

During this time, Breyer released ten regular runs and twelve special runs on this mold, putting him in second place for the most used G1 mold, eight runs behind the G1 Draft Horse. The popularity of this mold makes it one of the more difficult and expensive ones to conga; the sheer number of releases (especially with those three "Arabians" during the first part of 1975) doesn't help matters, either.

Along with the Arabian Mare and the Saddlebred, the Regular Run dapple grey "Arabian" Morgan Stallion found his way into the 1975 Sears Christmas Wish Book. 99¢, guys!

Scan from the 1975 Sears Christmas Wish Book provided by Sharon Walbridge
Like the other models, he came packaged in a little white box with a black line-drawing of the model on the side. Though he was given a Sears catalogue number, he was still a regular run release.

Photo and model owned by Deb Walsmith and used here by permission.

Many thanks to Sharon Walbridge and Deb Walsmith for contributing pictures from their collections!

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